Flap over WWII ace Boyington continues in UW Student Senate

The Pappy Boyington story isn’t over at the University of Washington. Seems the UW Student Senate spent time air-brushing the minutes of its disastrous Feb. 7 meeting in which senators dissed the WWII hero who was born in Coeur d’Alene. In follow-up discussion about the minutes, noted by Issaquah blogger Karl Swenson, sophomore Senator Jill Edwards wanted to add a sentence to a quote to show she respects veterans. Edwards, as you may recall, was the senator who objected to a campus memorial for UW alum Boyington because she didn’t believe a Marine with a record for killing enemy fighters was the sort “of person UW wanted to produce.” The senators hemmed and hawed about changing the minutes. But student body President Lee Dunbar didn’t. He thought the whole thing was absurd – the reaction to the Senate debate, not the loopy comments by Edwards and Ashley Miller. In fact, Dunbar said he ap-hollow-gized to Edwards, Miller and others who received “hurtful” e-mail or phone calls about the Boyington flap. In the minutes of the Senate’s Feb. 14 meeting, he said he would do everything in his power to prevent “such blatant disrespect for student’s opinions.” So much for the First Amendment.

‘Sophomore’ explains all

Huckleberries should keep the Boyington flap in perspective. HBOnline commenter Barry Foster explains why: “Sophomore Jill Edwards can be granted an indulgence for her misdeed. She is, after all, a sophomore, which by definition is one who is foolish in his/her knowledge. I had a history prof at Baylor who assuaged our fears about his reputation for stern requirements by saying on the first day of class, ‘In spite of what you may have heard, I don’t get satisfaction by wowing a bunch of sophomores with my knowledge. So relax and enjoy the course.’ Mr. Webster’s book says of the word “sophomoric”: ‘Suggestive of or resembling the traditional sophomore; intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, etc., but immature.’ What more needs to be said?” Nothing.

Mulleted Morrison?

“Regarding facial hair, I’ve been clean shaven, worn a full beard, mustache, and a goatee. I disagree that goatees are hip. Goatees were hip like 15 years ago when Andre Agassi and Bruce Willis first shaved their bald heads and started wearing them. They were hip then, but now everyone wears them, and they seem kind of tired. Take the mullet as an example. Billy Ray Cyrus started a trend that lasted too long since it takes awhile to grow a good mullet. Right now I’m working on the long, shaggy hair look with a full beard, and looking very Bohemian. I wonder what would happen if Morrison decided to wear a mullet?” – Huckleberries Online commenter Apple Sider re: Gonzaga’s mustached wonder. HBO: Dunno. But give the kid monster props for single-handedly bringing the mustache back into fashion, at least in the Inland Northwest. This Huckleberry Hound is going to bask in the shadow of Adam’s peach fuss as long as possible.

Huckleberries

Poet’s Corner: “Oh basketball player extraordinaire/You have such funny facial hair/Might you consider shaving it off?/Then UP students won’t laugh and scoff” – Amy Joy Oliveria, my daughter, and a University of Portland student senator (but not like the ones at UW), writing “An Ode to Adam Morrison” … Reader Bob Trueblood scored the perfect twin kill, catching both The S-R and the Coeur d’Alene Press in the same error. Repeat after Bob: You don’t unthaw water pipes … For $66 a pop, Kootenai County has hired Advanced Pest Control to fumigate its juvie four times, which prompted County Attorney Erika Grubbs to joke that it was so “spiders won’t become pets” for the delinquents within. She was joking, right? … And the answer is: President Bush (twice), Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Philip Morris CEO, OPEC heads, and “myself.” The question from North Idaho College Sentinel man on the street? “If you could have Dick Cheney shoot someone, who would it be?” That knock on your door could be the Secret Service … Quotable Quote: “I shot the son-of-a-bitch, and I’m glad I did. I’m an honest man,” Delbert “Earl” O’Kelley, 67, in the St. Maries Gazette-Record after allegedly shooting 44-year-old Charles Piper of Clarkia twice with a .22-caliber rifle … Ask HBO: “Yikes, the CdA Press printed the Mohammad cartoon today, and I viewed it. Does this mean I’m going to die?” – commenter Truthseeker. HBO: Eventually.

Parting shot

In the You Knew It Had To Happen Dept., Kootenai County Clerk Dan English reports that a laywoman accepted a call on her cell phone at his church Feb. 19. During Communion services, fuhcryinoutloud. And it wasn’t from You Know Who From On High telling her that she’d better repent or forgo communion privileges. Communion, of course, is the time when participants examine themselves to ensure they’re worthy to take the wafer. Ms. Cell Phone simply yakked away, oblivious to the seriousness of the moment. Dan’s still waiting for her to break out in boils.